Oropharyngeal dysphagia is frequent in neurodegenerative diseases with
medical, social and psychological effects. There is a paucity of evidence on the
frequency, nature and course of oropharyngeal ...

In emotional speech research, it has been suggested that loudness, along with other prosodic features, may be an important cue in communicating high activation affects. In earlier studies, we found different voice quality ...

With the increasing use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), it is no longer appropriate to associate English purely with ‘native-speaking’ nations, but with a global community of users. This article reports on the use of ...

The effectiveness of glottal source analysis is known to be dependent on the phonetic properties of its concomitant supraglottal features. Phonetic classes like nasals and fricatives are particularly problematic. Their ...

There has been a significant increase in the survival of preterm infants in
recent years. These infants often face difficulty acquiring the complex set of skills required for exclusive oral feeding due to a multiplicity ...

This thesis has three interrelated aims: (1) to elaborate a model of instructed second language acquisition (SLA) that brings together insights from cognitive research in second language acquisition and from the developmental ...

his preliminary study aimed to adapt the Dysarthria Impact Profile (DIP) in French and to confirm its relevance for the assessment
of the psychosocial impact of dysarthria in Parkinson?s disease (PD). The DIP scale was ...

The detection of short utterances in conversational or interactive speech is essential to the proper processing of meaning in spoken interaction. Short, simple utterances are extremely common, and because of their highly ...

Prosodic synchrony has been reported to be an important as- pect of conversational dyads. In this paper, synchrony in four different dyads is examined. A Time Aligned Moving Aver- age (TAMA) procedure is used to temporally ...

Background:
Narrative therapy (White & Epston, 1990) was developed as an approach to counselling, as a response to the power relations that influence people's lives. Its use with people who stutter has been documented. A ...

The gender system of Irish appears to have undergone a process of simplification:
traditionally depending on both formal and semantic assignment rules, agreement
in contemporary spoken Irish is still rather conservative ...

Quantifying the degree of involvement of a group of participants in a conversation is a task which humans accomplish every day, but it is something that, as of yet, machines are unable to do. In this study we first investigate ...

A higher education puts a woman in control of herself and that lasts a lifetime.
According to DeMott (1990), the resource most widely used as a tool for upward
mobility is education. However, for many women, the opportunity ...